Antero Frederico de Seabra explained

Antero Frederico de Seabra
Birth Date:	20 August 1874
Birth Place:	Lisbon, Portugal
Birth Name:	Antero Frederico Ferreira de Seabra
Death Place:	Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality:	Portuguese
Field:	Zoology
Workplaces:	Museu Zoológico de Lisboa; Vasco da Gama Aquarium; University of Lisbon

Antero Frederico de Seabra (sometimes Anthero; 20 August 1874 – 15 November 1952) was a Portuguese naturalist.He was founder and president of the Society of Biological Sciences.^[1] He particularly specialized in entomology, publishing a series of foundational papers on the family Aradidae.^[2]

Taxa named by him and in his honor

Species named in Seabra's honor include:

• Angolan hairy bat (Cistugo seabrae)^[3]
• Geocharis antheroi^[4]

Taxa described by Seabra:

• Anchieta's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus anchietae)^[5]
• D'Anchieta's fruit bat (Plerotes anchietae)^[5]
• Yellow serotine (Neoromicia flavescens)^[5]
• Hemiberlesia camarana

Notes and References

1. Web site: SEABRA, Antero Frederico Ferreira de (1874–1952). Universidade de Coimbra. 2017. Universidade de Coimbra. 19 May 2018.
2. Baena. M.. Zuzarte. A. J.. 2012. Notas sobre los arádidos de Portugal (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa. 50. 339–340.
3. Thomas. O.. 1912. XXII.—A new Vespertilionine bat from Angola. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 8. 10. 56. 205–206.
4. Serrano. A. R.. Aguiar. C. A.. 2011. Two new species of the genus Geocharis Ehlers, 1883 and new data on Anillina species from Portugal (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Zootaxa. 3116. 3116. 33–46. 10.11646/zootaxa.3116.1.2.
5. Seabra. A. F.. 1900. Diagnoses de quelques nouvelles especes et variétés de Chiropteres d'Afrique. Jornal de Sciencias, Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa. 2. 6. 120–121.